Open Textbook Adoption Workshop: Review to Adapt

This workshop is for faculty who wish to discuss and explore textbook and curriculum-related issues and options for their courses. The workshop covers research on student responses to textbook costs at Virginia Tech, emerging open textbook publication and adaptation models, copyright and Creative Commons licenses, and provides an invitation to review an open textbook, A $200 stipend is available for faculty who register, attend the workshop and review an open textbook within six weeks.

OER & Open Education: Exploring Philosophy, Potential & Practices

This presentation is an invitation to explore the topic of open education. With its emphasis on free content access and permissions, the open education movement has generated a flurry of activity around scholarly and teaching activities involving innovative pedagogies, open textbooks, open educational resources (OER), Creative Commons licensing, and open policies. This presentation explores philosophies, motivations, and emerging practices of the open education movement with an eye toward identifying opportunities for administrators, faculty, students, librarians and instructional designers.

Tell Your Story: Find and Distinguish Your Online Scholarly Presence

In this session, you will explore researcher profiles and other useful scholarly tools to learn how to improve your scholarly presence and boost the impact of your work. You will be introduced to essential researcher profiles, such as ORCID iD, that are crucial to ensuring you get all the credit you deserve for all your scholarly works. This interactive session also covers a suite of research impact metrics, such as citation-based metrics and altmetrics, and guidance regarding how to accurately and properly track and assess your impact and engagement in academic and public spheres.

Librarians and colleagues will be available to discuss library support available for projects, courses, and research. Drop by to pick up information on grant opportunities, upcoming programs, or to see the latest open educational resources created at VT and beyond.

Upcoming 2019 Programs:

January 15th – âGet Noticed: Managing your Scholarly Career in an Age of Metrics, Social Media, and Open Researchâ (January 15)

VT Publishing and Virginia Tech Libraries are excited to share a new Digital Humanities project, Redlining Virginia. The project is based on a physical exhibit that was held in the Newman Library at Virginia Tech from December 7, 2016 to February 17, 2017 and is part of a larger project, Mapping Inequality, a collaboration of three teams at four universities, including the University of Richmond, the University of Maryland, Johns Hopkins University, and Virginia Tech.

Mapping Inequality provides access to a collection of “security maps” and descriptions created by the Home Owners’ Loan Corporation (HOLC) between 1935 and 1940. These maps and their corresponding descriptions used a color-coding system to assign risk levels to different areas within a city which were often based on racial lines. As a result, they changed the course of real-estate practice for over a century.

Redlining Virginia was created using Omeka by LaDale Winling, in the History Department, with Eleanor Boggs and Nicholas Bolin. It pulls together HOLC maps from popular areas in Virginia to show the impact on Virginia Cities over time.

For more information on Mapping Inequality, please see this VT News Story.